Arriving where we started: Aristotle and business ethics

by Hartman, Edwin M.

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Full title :Arriving where we started : Aristotle and business ethics / Edwin M. Hartman.

Summary

Edwin Hartman offers an account of his intellectual journey from Aristotle to organization theory to business ethics to an Aristotelian approach to business ethics. Aristotle's work in metaphysics and psychology offers some insights into the explanation of behavior. Central to this sort of explanation is characteristically human rationality. Central to successful organizations is characteristically human sociability. That human beings are by nature rational and sociable is the basis of Aristotle's ethics. Though a modern organization is not a polis in Aristotle's sense, it has good reason to treat people as rational and sociable on the whole, and thereby to preserve the organization as a commons of people linked by something much like Aristotle's account of strong friendship. Organizations that are successful in this respect, particularly those that deal with a nationally diverse workforce, may offer a far-reaching and attractive model.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 233 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030440893, 3030440893
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-44089-3
oclc:on1204139303
LC Classification:HF5387
Dewey Decimal:174/.4

Introduction -- 1. Making sense of the world : substances -- 2. Moral imagination -- 3. Intention, rationality, and irrationality -- 4. Free will -- 5. Community and commons -- 6. The status of business ethics -- 7. Ethics across boundaries.